Ebola first identified
1976 · Event
Outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan reveal a deadly new haemorrhagic fever, named for the Ebola River.
On these timelines: Medicine & Public Health, Sub-Saharan Africa, Master, Arts and Thoughts, Pandemics & Plagues
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- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543)
- Hippocrates (460 BCE)
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Around 1976
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)